This one is for the kids--the tradition is: buy the biggest turkey we can find. This isn't the biggest we ever had, but it's definitely the biggest we've found since living on Saipan. Also, everybody, including all the guests, gets their favorite pie--or two.... (unless their favorite is lemon meringue--try making that in 75% humidity!) We don't worry much about leftovers because on Thanksgiving night we invite even more people over for Pie Night (i.e., bring your leftover pies and come share our leftover pies).
Since we live in the tropics, a trip to the beach can always be on the schedule. Of course, the kids would love to be in the snow--the youngest ones don't remember ever having seen snow in real life. They used to bring in a shipment from Japan every year and have a snow festival at La Fiesta Mall, but not anymore.
It was a lot of work and there was a little complaining about having to go to rehearsals, but it was worth it in the end. We put on 5 performances over a 6 day period. Phew!
Christmas morning Santa...& helper..
If our walls look a little bare it's because I had the brilliant idea that since the furniture was all moved out of the livingroom to accommodate our Thanksgiving day guests it would be a great time to paint the main rooms of the house. And the ceilings. And the ceiling fans. (It's an open floor plan, so the kitchen, diningroom, and livingroom all had to be done at once.) So we began painting during Scrooge production week...the first week of December...between Pie Night and Cookie Party...I must be nuts.
on-Saipan Cubmobile Races.Team T-Bone wins!
No New Year's Eve pictures this year, but we did have the party. Every year I vow that we are NOT going to have a New Year's Eve Party because of all the kids (it's always a family party), and fireworks (you can buy BIG ones here), but somehow it keeps happening. This year we didn't buy any fireworks--not even sparklers--but I knew that people would bring them because they always do. NOBODY brought ANY! That was fine with me. I, however, was the Scrooge of New Year's Eve according to the home team. Forget the fact that we can see all the fireworks for miles around from our deck and (at least I) enjoyed a beautiful show this year. Oh well. Happy New Year kids!
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I would so love to have some pies. I did make a pumpkin pie and two American friends and I ate the whole thing. All the ex-pats have trouble making crusts here. Some think it is the flour and others think it is the kind of shortening. Could it be the high humidity do you think? It is usually 75 to 90% humidity here. We end up making the kind of pies where you can use Gram cracker crusts. We can do that here but then some of our favorite pies need a pastry crust. Also, if we make a pie we have to do it by scratch. There are no cans of pumpkin or mincemeat (haven’t had that in 15 years or so) or those boxes of pumpkin filling mixes for chocolate or lemon or whatever.
The cookie sharing idea is also cool but we couldn’t do that here. The Dutch don’t bake so that ones out. I’ll run it by some friends though and maybe we can tweek it.
Not only AC/DC wears a kilt. White Stripes, Guns n Roses, Korn, lead singer Keith Flint of The Prodigy (one of my favorite bands) all wears a kilts. It is quite the thing. Very cool.
I agree with you and the New Years party thing. I don't understand the whole thing about it myself. The kids like it though and we stay up for it.
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